The gluttonous little boy is four and a half years old, and even the wealthy family kneels down and

"Why?" Xiao Jin looked at him, puzzled. "But there are lots of delicious things there!"

"So many!" Xiao Jin drew a big circle in the air with her two short arms.

"I'm not leaving! I'm going to catch fish for Grandpa and Grandma!" Zhang Tianlin was so angry he was practically turning into a pufferfish.

Xiao Jin understood. "So you can't bear to part with your grandparents?"

She sighed, rested her arms on her knees, and propped her head up with her hands. "Xiao Jin can't bear to part with Master either."

"But Xiao Jin can go back after three hundred days."

Zhang Tianlin had no idea what Xiao Jin was talking about and just kept sulking to himself.

Xiao Jin turned her gaze to Zhang Tianlin, "Grand-nephew, don't cry."

"We're not here to take you away!"

"Then, what are you here for?" he stammered.

Xiao Jin said matter-of-factly, "I'm here to pick you up."

Zhang Tianlin felt the child was teasing him, and became even angrier, "It's all the same!"

"It's different," Xiao Jin retorted earnestly. "If you can't bear to part with your grandparents, then take them with you."

Zhang Tianlin stopped crying instantly, staring blankly at Xiao Jin.

"Want to go together?"

"Hmm," Xiao Jin nodded, then sighed softly, "Sigh, adults always overcomplicate things."

Her clear eyes were without a trace of impurity:

"We could have played together."

"If the little roast duck says it doesn't want to be separated from its mom and dad, Xiao Jin will definitely send them to reunite in Xiao Jin's tummy!"

After Xiao Jin finished speaking, she couldn't help but laugh and even slurped her saliva a few times.

Zhang Tianlin paused for a moment, seemingly thinking about taking his grandparents with him.

He can go anywhere as long as he doesn't have to be separated from his grandparents.

He looked at the child beside him again. "You...are my sister?"

Little Jin shook her head vigorously, "No, I'm your great-aunt!"

Zhang Tianlin stared blankly at her, then mercilessly exposed her lie, "You're lying, you look younger than me."

"Xiao Jin is not a child anymore," Xiao Jin argued vehemently.

Zhang Tianlin paused for a moment, then asked, "So... have you been to school?"

Grandma said that once you start school, you'll be a big kid.

"Go to school?" Xiao Jin blinked, confused. "What does 'go to school' mean?"

"If you didn't go to school, then you're a child," Zhang Tianlin slowly lowered his gaze. "I didn't go to school either, school is very expensive..."

"Grandma said that going to school is about teaching children to read and grow up. Can you read?"

Xiao Jin slowly withdrew her chubby little hands that had been supporting her face, hugged them together helplessly, and said in a panic, "Xiao Jin... can't read..."

Those techniques were all taught to her by her master, step by step, word by word.

Her master taught her arithmetic, drawing talismans, exorcising evil spirits, and catching ghosts, but he didn't teach her to read!

"Then you're illiterate. I can read two words, so I should be your little aunt."

Zhang Tianlin said in a childlike manner.

"Xiao Jin is... illiterate?!" Xiao Jin looked shocked, but as soon as she finished speaking, she realized that she didn't even know what illiteracy meant.

"What is illiteracy?"

Zhang Tianlin was speechless. "It's you, you little idiot."

"Call me brother, and when I learn to read, I'll teach you to read."

"Brother!" Xiao Jin immediately changed her address, no longer wanting to be a little auntie, she wanted to learn to read!

"Um," Zhang Tianlin replied shyly, his face turning red, but thankfully his dark skin made it hard to tell.

Xiao Jin had just laughed twice, preparing to celebrate that she was going to learn to read, when she suddenly heard some sounds, and even her smile slowly disappeared.

Xiao Jin frowned, her little face turned serious, and her ears twitched slightly. "Someone is crying."

Zhang Tianlin looked at Xiao Jin strangely, "No one is crying."

"That's the sound of cicadas chirping."

Zhang Tianlin assumed that Xiao Jin had never heard the sound of cicadas before.

Xiao Jin pursed her lips and repeated, "Someone is crying."

She heard a young woman crying from the northwest.

She was crying so hard, even more so than her niece.

She raised her hand to her heart, pouted, and said, "It's so sad that Xiao Jin is crying..."

Zhang Tianlin looked around in confusion. "Nobody's crying."

Did his grandparents cry?

He stood up and pressed his ear against the door, carefully listening to the sounds coming from inside.

There were only voices inside, no crying.

Zhang Tianlin turned his head to talk to the little girl, but found that she had already run out.

"Ah," he whispered, "little sister, don't run around!"

He forgot his sadness and rushed after Xiao Jin, wanting to pull her back.

But he didn't expect the little girl to run so fast. He chased after her until she stopped, and only then did he catch up with her.

Zhang Tianlin, panting, said, "Let's go back quickly, or they won't be able to find you!"

Xiao Jin stared blankly at the peeling red door in front of her, repeating over and over, "There's a young lady crying inside!"

Zhang Tianlin glanced at the door in front of him, grabbed Xiao Jin's clothes, and said, "There's a big dog inside that bites. Don't go in."

"This uncle is very fierce, and there's a madman inside too!"

"Let's go back quickly!"

As he spoke, he walked behind Xiao Jin, squatted down slightly, and hugged Xiao Jin's round belly with both hands, wanting to take the little girl away.

No matter how hard Zhang Tianlin tried, he just couldn't lift the little girl.

She's so small, how can she be so heavy?

"You're too heavy!" Zhang Tianlin tried so hard his face turned red, but he still couldn't lift the little girl.

Suddenly, the sound of dogs barking came from the Great Red Gate.

"Woof woof woof—"

Zhang Tianlin was terrified. "Run!"

"I'll hold your hand, little sister."

Xiao Jin stared at the big red door with a tense face, and suddenly realized that the crying had stopped.

Soon, she heard someone calling out:

"Xiao Jin—"

"Linlin—"

Xiao Jin then looked away and was pulled back by Zhang Tianlin.

The adults were all waiting for them outside, clearly not expecting the two children to run away.

Zhang Tianlin didn't know what the adults had discussed, but he could vaguely sense that everyone seemed very happy.

Zhang Deshun pulled him over and stood him in front of the woman who had been chasing him all the way, urging, "This is your mother, quickly call her 'Mom'!"

Zhang Tianlin looked at that face, which was still beautiful despite having cried, and stammered, unable to utter a sound.

"It's alright," Yun Mingyue said gently, her voice trembling, "No rush, I'm not in a hurry."

Zhang Tianlin nervously swallowed, then mustered his courage and shouted, "My grandpa and grandma want to come with me too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was stunned for a moment.

Yun Mingyue was the first to react, "Of course, of course!"

She originally planned to bring the two elderly people back to Beijing to live out their retirement.

For some reason, Zhang Tianlin felt a lump in his throat and wanted to cry.

He raised his arm and smacked his eyes haphazardly.

"You child..." Zhang Deshun choked up and couldn't speak.

Suddenly, a clear child's voice broke the touching atmosphere.

Xiao Jin pointed at Zhang Tianlin and said to everyone, "He's Xiao Jin's older brother!"

Upon hearing this, Yun Mingyuan felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

The family hierarchy is completely a mess!

My little darling, how can your niece's son be your brother!

He roared inwardly, "You're his little aunt!"

Yun Mingyue was amused by Xiao Jin. She took Xiao Jin's hand and said very seriously:

"Thank you."

"aunt."

Words cannot express the complex emotions Yun Mingyue has been experiencing these past two days. The immense kindness she has received has settled in her heart, condensing into these few words that are both light and heavy.

Xiao Jin blinked, raised her hand and patted Yun Mingyue's head, "Don't cry, don't cry, my silly niece."

"Xiao Jin is here."

With tears in her eyes, Yun Mingyue unconsciously smiled and responded heavily, "Mmm!"